ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,412, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Network coding to mitigate blockage with spatial division multiplexing beams" was invented by Shay Landis (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ran Berliner (Kfar-Aviv, Israel), Idan Michael Horn (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Yehonatan Dallal (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling indicating a network coding configuration for a set of transmit beams, each transmit beam in the set of transmit beams being spatial division multiplexed with respect to th...